David Gonski

David Michael Gonski AC (born 1953) is an Australian public figure, corporate lawyer, and businessman. He is best known for his recommendations on funding schools in Australia, in a document known as the Gonski Report (or first Gonski Report), following a review commissioned by Julia Gillard, then Minister for Education in the Rudd Government in 2010, published in November 2011. He also chaired a second panel, commissioned by Turnbull government in 2017, to make recommendations on how school funding should be used to improve school performance and student outcomes, referred to as Gonski 2.0, with the second report being published in 2018. He has also held a large number of positions leading boards in different types of organisations – governmental, commercial, and not-for-profit or philanthropic organisations. Most notably, he has chaired the boards of the Australian Government Future Fund and ANZ Banking Group and been president of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Since 2005 and as of March 2025^[update], he has been Chancellor of the University of New South Wales.